“My grandfather wouldn’t recognize

what I do as work”

Tim O’Reilly

Ignite Google I/O

May 19, 2016

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“My grandfather

wouldn’t recognize what

I do as work.”

-Hal Varian

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The more things change, the more they stay the same

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Low wage employers like McDonalds and Walmart are the

new sweatshop, but something different is happening in tech

McDonalds 440,000 employees, 68 million monthly users

Snapchat ~300 employees, 100 million monthly users

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These are the workers

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Programmers are actually managers

Every day, you are

inspecting the performance

of your workers and giving

them instruction (in the form

of code) about how to do a

better job

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There are other companies where programs are

managers, while many of the workers are human

At

companies

like Uber

and Lyft,

algorithms

tell people

what to do

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Those programmers are actually managers

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“God did not make being an

auto worker a good job!”

David Rolf, SEIU

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Those programmers are actually managers

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Those programmers are actually managers

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“My grandfather

wouldn’t recognize what

I do as work.”

-Hal Varian

@timoreilly #NextEconomy

@timoreilly #NextEconomy

@timoreilly #NextEconomy

@timoreilly #NextEconomy

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It’s time to build technology, and companies,

as if people matter!